GRAIL is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. GRAIL is focused on alleviating the global burden of cancer by developing pioneering technology to detect and identify multiple deadly cancer types early. The company is using the power of next-generation sequencing, population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to enhance the scientific understanding of cancer biology, and to develop its multi-cancer early detection blood test. GRAIL is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom. GRAIL, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN). For more information, please visit www.grail.com.

Project Manager / Senior Project Manager

This position will be responsible for providing Project Management expertise and support to GRAIL teams working at GRAILs Research Triangle Park (RTP) facility. The successful candidate will be comfortable working on projects across but not limited to, various operations-related functional area’s including Equipment Operations,

MSAT, Lab Operations, Supply Chain, Technical Operations, and R&D to ensure all project milestones and deliverables are met, and that activities are well executed and managed. Responsibilities include the day-to-day planning, coordinating, and tracking of critical activities including management of cross-functional projects interfacing with the functional group’s listed above (amongst others), as well as with subject matter experts at GRAIL's Menlo Park facility. The successful candidate will partner with functional and Life Cycle team leaders to optimize teams’ effectiveness, decision making, communication and utilize robust negotiating skills to facilitate integrated decision making.

You will:

• Create and drives timelines to keep project(s) on schedule. 
• Establish and maintain functionally integrated project schedulesUtilize tracking tools to enable effective project management across various functional areas.
• Schedule, organize, and drive project team meeting(s): prepare and distribute agendas/minutes; track action items, and escalate areas of risk to the appropriate management entity.
• Facilitate communication of sub-team issues and outcomes to the Core Team/Project team leadership.
• Manage the interfaces between functional areas and ensure effective handoff and communication between department functions to execute on important project milestones.
• Work with project leaders and/or SME’s to prepare status reports, specific project updates, or scenarios.
• Manage document review processes to support functional activities and other key project deliverables.
• Engage with quality and regulatory functions to ensure operational planning and execution meets expected standards
• Collaborate with site Leadership/teams to define project-related budget assumptions for annual operating plan. 

Your background should include

• Minimum of a BA/BS is required. An advanced degree (PhD, MS, MBA, MD) is desirable in a discipline related to drug development or business.
• The ideal candidate will have at least 1-3 years multidisciplinary experience in the device/diagnostic/biotech/pharmaceutical industry, with 1-3 years direct project management in laboratory operations or a supporting function e.g. technical operations, supply chain, MSAT, engineering
• Experience working under design control




Key Attributes for a successful candidate:Proactive/not passive:

• Motivated to solve problems and create/manage situations to move forward while keeping the whole team intact through positive energy.
• Communication: Can distill complex scenarios/ideas into clear messages and next steps to a broad audience
• Adaptive: Can pivot quickly to new ideas, direction and process while being grounded in defining what success looks like.
• "Edge": Comfortable in tough situations, can be relied on in tense circumstances, and will face difficult challenges with poise and self-assurance. For example, comfortable influencing decision-making of others internally, across functions/team, and at any level.

GRAIL is an Equal Employment Office and Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We will reasonably accommodate all individuals with disabilities so that they can participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Following extensive monitoring, research, consideration of business implications, and advice from internal and external experts, GRAIL has made the decision to require all U.S. employees receive the COVID-19 vaccines as a condition of employment. “Full vaccination” is defined as two weeks after both doses of a two-dose vaccine or two weeks since a single-dose vaccine has been administered. Anyone unable to be vaccinated, either because of a sincerely held religious belief or a medical condition or disability that prevents them from being vaccinated, can request a reasonable accommodation.